The event was heaven for me - it gave me the opportunity to contribute to a great cause while sampling chocolate and wine tasting. I parked myself at the chocolate table and discovered a whole new level of chocolate experience thanks to the guidance of Professional Chocolate Critic, Clay Gordon. His goal is simple - to make people shout "Oh My God!" when they put one of his concoctions in their mouths. He offered up some strange sounding combinations like chocolate with coconut and curry or ganache with strawberries and chocolate cinnamon balsamic vinegar but the tastes were perfect together. He recently wrote a book all about chocolate called Discover Chocolate. Check out his site, The Chocolate Life, essentially the Facebook of Chocolate Lovers. Anyone is welcome, as long as they want to talk about chocolate. 
I had a valuable wingwoman with me, my friend and new arrival to the blogosphere, Beth of the Luddite Blogger. I just wish I'd had my camera with me to share some of these concoctions with you - but honestly I don't think I would have had time to snap pictures because I was too busy scarfing down the chocolate!
He left me with one word of advice that I'm planning on implementing as soon as possible. "Get more cocoa powder in your diet - it's good for you." Thanks for the tip Clay!
3 comments:
Girl, your life rocks!! You get to do some amazing things.
Chocolate AND wine??? It doesn't get much better.
I'll check out your new blogging friend's blog! :)
Wow, it sounds like were living parallel lives these days. I wasn't able to photograph my mom's benefit either, there was just too much eating to do.
I will have to check out these sites.
Chocolate... yumm!
The chocolate with pineapple and walnut ended up being my personal fave. The bar is set high - I'm looking forward to my next wingwoman escapade.
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